Judy Schaaf

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English

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Medieval and Renaissance Studies

19th century American literature

Travel and Nature writing

Judy Schaaf is Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. She received her Ph.D. in Medieval Literature from Yale University, a M. Litt. in American Literature from Middlebury College, a M.A. in English literature from Columbia University, and B.A. degrees in English and in Anthropology from Rice University.

Prof. Schaaf has also taught at North Carolina State University, at Norwich University in Vermont, where she was Charles A. Dana University Professor and Head of the Division of Humanities, and at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia, where she was Fulbright Senior Lecturer in American literature. In Vermont, she served on the governing board of the Vermont Council on the Humanities and chaired the Council’s Program Committee.